Chapter IV - Creation
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is just what Jesus taught, namely, the fruit they bear,
is just what Jesus taught, namely, the fruit they bear,
otherwise the demonstration they bring; if you contra-
dict sense with science and abide by the rules of the
latter, you will demonstrate harmony, and prove your
position the right one. Our experience of what is called
Life germinating from an egg, corresponds with that of
Job, that it is of "few days and full of trouble." From
this material source flow all sorrow, sin, and death, and
the power is not in its origin to "deliver us from the
body of this death," consequently our next appeal is to
something higher than to matter, drugs, 'ologies, or 'isms.
We may call on God to heal our sicknesses, and though
we pray seven times a day, and our clergyman and
physician pray for us, we may not gain the blessing; not
faith, but understanding, brings the blessing. To know
that God is not the author of sin or suffering, and that
"his hand is not shortened, or ear heavy," but that
error produces error, is to learn what error is, and how
destroyed; then shall we find our remedy for sickness
and sin, is to "work out our own salvation." On this
point mankind need much enlightenment, for the science
of being alone solves the problem of man harmoniously.
God giveth not a stone for bread; when we ask earn-
estly and strive for health to be useful, able to do good
to ourself and others, why does he withhold it? These
are unanswerable questions, irreconcilable with Wis-
dom until we learn God is not person, but Principle, and
that we must understand this Principle, to direct our
being in harmony with it; and then shall we be able to
govern the physical and mental. All depends on mind;
matter holds no power over man to create or to destroy
him. Sickness and death are errors of belief arising
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from an ignorance of our origin and immortal being, and
from an ignorance of our origin and immortal being, and
to be harmonious and immortal we must understand the
science of Life, that changes our reckonings of Life from
body to Soul, and from matter to Spirit. Knowing we
are Intelligence, and not intelligent matter; Soul and
not sense, is the Truth that destroys all sickness, sin,
and death. Once perceiving the mental hallucination
that embitters existence, we shall unmake what mind
has made. God sends not one of our diseases, and mat-
ter cannot create sensation, nor can it govern mind.
Error alone, produces error, and all sickness, and every
discord of earth is error.
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Thought, let loose somewhat from the old basic
Thought, let loose somewhat from the old basic
theories amalgamates with other forms of belief, and
changes them; this we see prototyped in the floral
kingdom, in blended tints of leaf and flower. The
metaphysical, however, will end as the physical, when,
according to Agassiz, "the intermixing of different
species, urged to its final limits, results in the distinct
original species." Error must be destroyed at its foun-
tain head, or it will resume its old proportions and
relations. Mind must settle down on an improved
basis, even the Truth of being, or health will never be
universally established, and when this is done, harmo-
nious and immortal man will be the only man. Prof.
Agassiz has given the origin of mortal and material
man; he has traced what we term animal existence,
through various stages of its embryology, and with
most important observations that ought to awaken
thought to the higher and purer contemplation of man's
origin that must precede the understanding of being.
Man is not the offspring of sense, but Soul, and co‑